Senior Site Reliability Engineer

LNRS Data Services (Australia) Pty Ltd Company; Sydney; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer to build and operate a secure, scalable AWS platform behind global identity-verification services. You will own infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and drive continuous improvement in a globally distributed team.

The role requires hands-on experience with AWS, CDK, Linux systems, and modern CI/CD practices. You will collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Product to deliver reliable, scalable services

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps in production environments.
• Strong AWS experience with serverless and RDS.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation; AWS CDK experience is strongly preferred.
• Linux/Unix administration, networking, load balancing, and security knowledge.
• Observability with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
• Experience with CI/CD, release automation, incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Familiarity with SRE concepts (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and tools.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• Drive reliability through automation, observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilient architecture.
• Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices, with extensive use of AWS CDK.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and rapid incident diagnosis.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational readiness reviews.
• Partner with engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity.
• Apply and drive adoption of the AWS AI-DLC framework across Product, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Security.
• Participate in global follow-the-sun support and strengthen operational standards and documentation.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

AWS

IaC

Linux

Observability

CI/CD

Incident management

SLIs/SLOs

Automation

Collaboration

Tools

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Job description

About the team

IdVerse is a part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we're helping organisations build trust online through AI-powered identity verification and fraud prevention technology.

About the role

IdVerse is looking for a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to help build and operate the secure, reliable AWS platform behind our global identity-verification services. This is a hands-on role with ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team.

What you'll do

• Build, operate, and improve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• Drive reliability through automation, observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilient architecture.
• Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices, with extensive use of AWS CDK.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and rapid incident diagnosis.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational readiness reviews.
• Partner with engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity.
• Apply and drive adoption of the AWS AI-DLC framework across Product, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Security.
• Participate in global follow-the-sun support and help strengthen operational standards and documentation.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, Cloud Platform, or systems engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong AWS experience, including Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, and serverless architecture is a MUST TO HAVE.
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code and automation; AWS CDK experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration, networking, load balancing, troubleshooting, and system security knowledge.
• Deep observability experience, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and service health dashboards.
• Experience with CI/CD, release automation, incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Experience designing reliable systems using practical SRE methods such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and familiarity with Spec-Driven Development practices and supporting tools.
• Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently, make sound operational decisions, and elevate early when needed.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with container platforms, Kubernetes, or ECS.
• Experience with security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, and high-trust production environments.
• Experience supporting globally distributed, customer-facing services and follow-the-sun operations.
• Experience mentoring engineers and establishing SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering standards.
• Background in identity verification, fraud prevention, fintech, or another security-sensitive domain.

Location and collaboration

The team is globally distributed. Candidates must be based in Australia with full working rights and be able to collaborate across time zones.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, our businesses span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics, decisioning tools and data management services that provide market-specific solutions. Approximately 11,100 employees in offices throughout the world support our brands by serving customers in more than 190 countries and territories. LexisNexis Risk Solutions is part of RELX, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.